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Navy officer accused of espionage; now held in Navy brig
ROBERT BURNS Lt. Edward Lin, a native of Taiwan, speaks at a naturalization ceremony, in the U.S. American de- and attended Navy nucle-
AP National Security Writer fense officials say Lin, a Navy officer with access to classified information is accused of passing ar training at Charleston,
WASHINGTON (AP) — military secrets to China or Taiwan, or both. South Carolina, from 2000
The U.S. military has to 2002. He then attended
charged a Taiwan-born (U.S. Navy/MC1 Sarah Murphy via AP) Officer Candidate School
Navy officer with espio- and gained his commission
nage for allegedly passing there is enough evidence It said he was a signals in- tative of a foreign govern- in May 2002.
military secrets to China or against Lin to pursue a telligence specialist on the ment “with intent or reason He served with Fleet Air Re-
Taiwan, U.S. defense offi- court-martial, or military Navy’s EP-3E Aries II recon- to believe it would be used connaissance Squadron 1,
cials said Monday. trial, will be made by Adm. naissance planes. to the advantage of a for- based at Whidbey Island,
A Navy document that de- Philip S. Davidson, com- The list of charges, a copy eign nation.” Washington, from 2004 to
scribes multiple charges mander ofU.S. Fleet Forces of which was provided to He also is accused of know- 2007.
against Lt. Cmdr. Edward Command at Norfolk. The Associated Press, cites ingly providing false official Among his other assign-
C. Lin accuses him of failing The charges against Lin two counts of espionage statements related to his ments, he attended the
to report foreign contacts were first reported Sunday and three of attempted es- foreign travel. Navy War College at New-
and says that on multiple by USNI News, which said pionage. It says Lin provid- An official list of Lin’s Navy port, Rhode Island, and
occasions he gave or at- he served on some of the ed or attempted to provide assignments says he joined served for nearly two years
tempted to give secret Navy’s most sensitive intel- secret national defense the service in December in Washington on the staff
national defense informa- ligence-gathering aircraft. information to a represen- 1999 as an enlisted sailor of the assistant secretary of
tion to representatives of a the Navy for financial man-
foreign government. Lin is agement and comptroller.
being held in pre-trial con- His official Navy biography
finement in a Navy brig in says he was assigned to
Virginia. the Special Projects Patrol
Uncensored portions of the Squadron at Kaneohe, Ha-
charge sheet do not iden- waii, from Feb. 15, 2014, to
tify the accused, but multi- March 25, 2016.
ple officials said it is Lin. The A Navy press release about
document does not reveal Lin’s attendance at his nat-
whom he is accused of spy- uralization ceremony in Ha-
ing for, but officials said the waii in December 2008 said
country involved is China or he was 14 when he and his
Taiwan, and possibly both. family left Taiwan.
The officials were not au- “I always dreamt about
thorized to discuss an on- coming to America, the
going investigation and so ‘promised land,’” Lin was
spoke on condition of ano- quoted as saying. “I grew
nymity. up believing that all the
A military hearing was held roads in America lead to
in Norfolk, Virginia, last Fri- Disneyland.”q
day. A decision on whether
South Carolina officer gets probation in driver’s shooting
JEFFREY COLLINS A prosecutor wanted the shooting of Michael Brown State police said Monday day. State Rep. Joe Neal
Associated Press North Augusta police offi- in Ferguson, Missouri, and that Satterwhite’s blood has already seen it and
COLUMBIA, South Carolina cer charged with voluntary Freddie Gray’s death after alcohol level was 0.15 per- said it will show Craven had
(AP) — A white South Caro- manslaughter, which car- he was injured in a Balti- cent, nearly twice the legal no business getting proba-
lina police officer who was ries up to 30 years in prison, more Police van. limit to drive. Police records tion.
charged with a felony for but a grand jury refused Craven shot and killed show he had been arrested “What he did was mur-
shooting and killing a black to indict Craven. He was 68-year-old Ernest Satter- more than a dozen times der this man, and the judi-
driver at the end of a chase later charged with a differ- white in his driveway after on traffic violations, includ- cial system just let him get
took a plea deal Monday ent felony. Craven’s plea a slow, 15-minute police ing three times for fleeing away with it,” said Neal,
and was sentenced to comes amid a nationwide chase in February 2014. police. However, there is a black Democrat from
three years of probation. debate over the use of Craven had told investiga- no evidence he ever physi- Hopkins who has spent
Justin Craven, 27, pleaded force and how white police tors he thought Satterwhite cally fought with officers. decades speaking out
guilty to misdemeanor mis- officers treat black people, was reaching for a gun; no State police plan to release against racism in law en-
conduct in office, multiple fueled by high-profile inci- weapon was ever found in dashboard camera video forcement and demand-
media outlets reported. dents including the fatal Satterwhite’s car. of the shooting later Mon- ing accountability.q
